Some Old Kitchens

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    Set image from the movie Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

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    In 2001 Julia Child gave her kitchen to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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    Saturday night in the kitchen

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    That looks like a baking center to the right of the stove/range. I haven't seen one in a long time.
     
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    Are Old Appliance Colors becoming New Again?

    For those who want to go back to the 1950's, these appliances are new, and for sale here. Not cheap.

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    Anyone remember oilcloth tablecloths on kitchen tables?

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    Wilder Oilcloth Factory, Hallowell, Maine. (ca 1895)

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    Interesting towel racks. One like a restroom and others hanging on a pipe (?) at the ceiling. :confused:
     
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    Tenement kitchen with bathtub.

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    Our Elmira cookstove as used during the very desolate year following my lay-off from work, holed-up as we were on 40 acres of northern arizona on which we had built a 16 X 40 foot gambrel cabin, attempting self-sufficiency due to cruel fact: no jobs presented. We had a Nubian milk goat, 6 laying hens, plenty of firewood, no electricity, no water, no phone (not even cell!). Strangely, as far from Tucson as it was, we received Tucson TV stations on a 12" B/W set operating off our car battery.

    The year spent up there may have been the best of all our 40 together. Frank
     
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